Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) announced today that its Command & Control Technologies group, which is part of Comtech's Government Solutions segment, was awarded contract modifications totaling $4.2 million. Of this amount, $3.0 million was received during its fourth quarter of fiscal 2017 and $1.2 million was received during its first quarter of fiscal 2018. This additional funding applies to the original award in April 2017, which today totals $7.7 million of the total potenti...

ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global broadband services and technology company, has completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) milestones for the ViaSat-3 class spacecraft. The payload CDR was successfully completed last week, and when combined with the successful bus CDR, conducted with Boeing in mid-August, ViaSat and Boeing are now moving forward with building, integrating and testing the first two satellites.
The ViaSat-3 class of Ka-band satellites is expected to provide unprecedented ca...

Engineers have been at Russia's Plesetsk launch site for a month now, ticking off the jobs on the 'to do' list so that the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite is fit and ready for liftoff on 13 October. With the satellite now fuelled, the team has passed another milestone.
Fuelling a satellite is a particularly delicate operation. Hydrazine is extremely toxic so only a few specialists wearing 'scape' suits remain in the cleanroom.
Once filled with 82 kg of hydrazine, the satellite was weighed...

NASA’s asteroid sample return spacecraft successfully used Earth’s gravity on Friday to slingshot itself on a path toward the asteroid Bennu, for a rendezvous next August.
At 12:52 p.m. EDT on Sept. 22, the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) spacecraft came within 10,711 miles (17,237 km) of Antarctica, just south of Cape Horn, Chile, before following a route north over the Pacific Ocean.
OSIRIS-R...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope helped an international team of astronomers find that an unusual object in the asteroid belt is, in fact, two asteroids orbiting each other that have comet-like features. These include a bright halo of material, called a coma, and a long tail of dust.
Hubble was used to image the asteroid, designated 300163 (2006 VW139), in September 2016 just before the asteroid made its closest approach to the Sun. Hubble’s crisp images revealed that it was actual...

Arianespace’s ninth launch of 2017 is now scheduled for September 29 on a dual-payload Ariane 5 mission to geostationary transfer orbit with Intelsat 37e (for the global operator Intelsat) and BSAT-4a (for Space Systems Loral in the framework of a turnkey contract for the Japanese operator B-SAT).
Ariane 5 in the Final Assembly BuildingDesignated Flight VA239 in Arianespace’s mission numbering system for its launcher family, the liftoff originally had been set for September 5, b...

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office lifted off from Space Launch Complex-3 on Sept. 23, at 10:49:47 p.m. PDT. Designated NROL-42, the mission is in support of national security.
"Congratulations to the entire team for overcoming multiple challenges throughout this launch campaign. From Hurricane Irma schedule impacts to replacing to a first stage battery this week - the team maintained a clear focus on mission success," said...

For the first time in its 19-year history, SMi Group’s Global MilSatCom Conference & Exhibition will be featuring South Korea in its speaker line-up for this year’s event.
With recent threats surging within the region, South Korea has instilled urgency in the race to perfect milsatcom systems to ensure overall robust defence capability. Commander of Defence Communication Command, Brigadier General Nag Jung Choi, will be presenting a keynote address on Day 3 of the conference...

In the first act of lunar exploration, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were major characters. In setting its sights on the Moon, ESA hopes to bring many more actors to this off-world stage.
By testing the market for transport services to the Moon, ESA aims to push the limits of technology and create new models of space business.
Touching down on the Moon was a monumental moment in human history. Eight short years and enormous resources took humankind to the lunar surface, initially for le...

Astronomers have used ALMA to capture a strikingly beautiful view of a delicate bubble of expelled material around the exotic red star U Antliae. These observations will help astronomers to better understand how stars evolve during the later stages of their life-cycles.
In the faint southern constellation of Antlia (The Air Pump) the careful observer with binoculars will spot a very red star, which varies slightly in brightness from week to week. This very unusual star is called U Antliae and...

SES, EchoStar Corp., and Airbus Defence and Space announced today that the new EchoStar 105/SES-11 spacecraft, built by Airbus, has been shipped from the Airbus facilities in Toulouse, France, to Cape Canaveral, Florida, for its forthcoming launch by SpaceX in October. The first satellite that EchoStar has constructed with manufacturer Airbus, EchoStar 105/SES-11 will be launched by SpaceX on a flight-proven Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
EchoStar 10...

Today Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) debuted a new family of satellite buses that form the core of nearly every space mission. From nanosats to high-powered satellites, the versatile lineup incorporates dozens of major enhancements and hundreds of common components that speed production and reduce cost. The company announced the lineup at the Air Force Association Air, Space & Cyber Conference.
"We've invested $300 million in revamping our satellite solutions from top to bottom, applying what we...

FLYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: FLY) (OTCQX: FLYLF) (the "Company" or "FLYHT") is pleased to announce a flight trial with Inmarsat, and would like to bring attention to an Inmarsat press release titled Inmarsat to demonstrate advanced SwiftBroadband-Safety capabilities in flight trial with FLYHT on September 19, 2017. This trial will demonstrate the use of FLYHT's Automated Flight Information Reporting System (AFIRS(tm)) to send data to the UpTime(tm) Cloud management platform via I...

With the ''Space Strategy for Europe'' from the European Commission and the new ESA roadmap on the table, the European space stakeholders will have the great opportunity to debate and influence, at the highest level, the medium and long term development of European space programmes and of the spread of space services in many economic and societal activities as well as in a wide range of public fields, including security and defence.
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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:KTOS), a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that it has recently received approximately $8.2 million in orders or specialized products in support of satellite global positioning system protection and communication systems. Work on these recent orders will be performed in secure Kratos manufacturing facilities. Due to customer related, competitive and other considerations, no additional information will be provided rel...

The Sun's recent activity has caught the interest of scientists and space weather forecasters worldwide, highlighting the need to keep a watchful eye on our star and its awesome power.
On 6 and 10 September, our Sun produced a pair of solar flares, the strongest observed in over 10 years. They were accompanied by huge eruptions of billions of tonnes of matter into space.
While many such eruptions fall back onto the hot surface, these two did not and became 'coronal mass ejections' (CMEs) -...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a planet outside our solar system that looks as black as fresh asphalt because it eats light rather than reflecting it back into space. This light-eating prowess is due to the planet's unique capability to trap at least 94 percent of the visible starlight falling into its atmosphere.
The oddball exoplanet, called WASP-12b, is one of a class of so-called "hot Jupiters," gigantic, gaseous planets that orbit very close to their host ...

Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) will continue its support for NOAA's Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System program that ingests and analyzes weather data, creating useful visualizations for forecasters and distributing time-sensitive weather statements such as watches and warnings across the United States.
Used by more than 140 National Weather Service field offices, the AWIPS program informs decisions that save lives and protect property during natural disasters.
Under the $269 mill...

The international Cassini mission has concluded its remarkable exploration of the Saturnian system in spectacular style, by plunging into the gas planet's atmosphere.
Confirmation of the end of mission arrived at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at 11:55 GMT/13:55 CEST with the loss of the spacecraft's signal having occurred 83 minutes earlier at Saturn, some 1.4 billion km from Earth.
With the rocket propellant for manoeuvering the spacecraft fully expended as planned touring Saturn and i...

Four of the latest set of Galileo navigation satellites will be launched on Ariane 6 rockets - ESA's first contract to use Europe's new vehicle.
The launches are scheduled between the end of 2020 and mid-2021, using two Ariane 62 rockets - the configuration of Europe's next-generation launch vehicle that is best suited to haul the two 750 kg navigation satellites into their orbits at 23 222 km altitude.
Under development, Ariane 6 is Europe's newest launcher, designed to extend guaranteed ...

Experienced ground system software architect. I have worked for ESA in known aerospace industries

CV

Studies

Master Degree in Computer Science (Information Engineering Laurea) taken at “La Sapienza” University in Rome on April 1999 defending a thesis about computer graphics entitled “Exact Collision Detection and Particle System for the MIDAS Toolkit”. Mark: 107 out of 110.

The training has been focused on modern information systems design trough addition of specific courses.

Among the classes attended at we consider the following more qualifying:

High school diploma at "L.Pasteur" high school in Rome on July 1992.
Mark: 60 out of 60.

Foreign Languages

Italian: mother tongue.

English: very good knowledge of the written and read language, fairly good knowledge of the spoken language.

Computer Related Knowledge

Operating Systems:

Very good knowledge of Windows 2000, Windows XP systems.
Very good knowledge of GNU-Linux based systems (particularly Ubuntu and Red Hat distributions).

Applications:

Very good knowledge of office automation applications.
Very good knowledge of 2D and 3D graphics applications.

Programming Languages:

Very good knowledge of Java programming language.
Very good knowledge of C++ programming language.
Good knowledge of Python programming language.
Fairly good knowledge of C and PHP programming languages.

Data Base:

Very good knowledge of SQL.
Good knowledge of Oracle RDBMS (versions 10gR2 and 11gR1) and PL/SQL.
Good knowledge of PostgreSQL (versions 9.0 and 9.1) RDBMS.
Good knowledge of Oracle Spatial and PostGIS.

July 2000 – December 2010

Project: Management of the team developing the Multi Mission Coordinated Catalogue (MC2), a software system of the Space Coordinated Data Access (SCDA) of European Space Agency (ESA) for the European program GMES. It is the catalogue of earth observation products of ESA's and the other GMES contributing missions. Based on MMMC (see further) but with an Oracle 11gR1 database.

Project: Management of the team maintaining and evolving the Multi Mission Master Catalogue (MMMC), a software system of the Ground Segment of European Space Agency (ESA). It is the reference catalogue of earth observation products metadata of ESA satellites and other third party missions. Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with an Oracle 10gR2 database on the same platform, written in C++. It's a five year mature production system.

Project: DEWS, part of the European Community 6th Framework Program, aimed at the design of an emergency warning system for tsunamis in the indian ocean region. Based on the ORCHESTRA architecture (thus service oriented) and including elements from the similar GITEWS (German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System) project.

Project: ORCHESTRA, part of the European Community 6th Framework Program, aimed at the design of an open service oriented architecture (SOA) to improve interoperability between stakeholders involved in natural risk management.

Activity: service requirements analysis of services common to several kind of risks, design and implementation of some of the meteorological base services of the future architecture.

Project: NextGRID, aimed at the research and development of a framework for the workflow programming model of the future GRID architecture. The model is enriched by semantic elements that make it independent from the application domain and entirely generic.

Activity: design and implementation of the workflow data model, interaction with the NextGRID environment and design and development of a prototype of the application for workflow visual editing.

Project: supply of the National Weather Radar Network for the Italian Civil Protection Agency (Dipartimento Protezione Civile). A system for the full management of a weather radar control centre both at local level and at radar network level. The system supports: daily programming of local radar acquisitions, radar mosaicking programming, local and central radar data acquisition, local products extraction in support of mosaicking, polar data and products archiving, standard and mosaicked products distribution, user interface for products presentation, programmable services management.

Activity: user requirements systematization, system requirement analysis, and the early software architecture design of a prototype system. Participation in the cost estimation phase of the project management plan.

Project: GLOBCARBON, part of the DUP2 programme of the European Space Agency aimed at the development of a service to generate fully calibrated estimates of at land products from seven complete years, from 1997 to 2003 of data provided by ESA Earth Observation satellites plus a number of other sensors. The project focused on development of a system to generate global estimates of burned areas, reflectance and green biophysical parameters

Activity: analysis, design, implementation and unit testing of the production chain coordination module and the satellite products ingestion module, design implementation and unit testing of the product archiving facility.

Project: EGERIS, development of Emergency Management tools for Civil Protection organisations and for national or regional authorities to be used during the crisis and preparedness phases. The project aimed at creating generic application components for emergency management focusing on supporting on-field operations by advanced ICT based on mobile and fixed equipment. Application fields: earthquake, forest fires and flood.

Activity: analysis, design and partial implementation of the On-site Team and Data Management subsystem.

Project: NSED, new information system of the weather forecast department of the national Military Air Force. The system main functions are meteorological data gathering (sensors and human measurements, radar network, NOAA and Meteosat 1st and 2nd generation satellites, WMO/AFTN messages, ...), automatic data validation and processing through public (HIRLAM, DWD/DM) and proprietary weather forecast models and historical archive and on-line availability of received and processed meteorological and climatological data.

Activity: design, development and unit testing of the Man-Machine-Interface.

June 1999 - July 2000

Activity: application logic and presentation layer. The first release was developed using Oracle Developer 2000-Forms Environment. The second & third release were Web-based (HTML & Javascript) and used the Java Servlet technology on the server side.

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